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Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General calls for change in approach in receiving refugees

September 17, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Against a background of a rising tide of refugees coming to Bulgaria, many fleeing conflict-torn Syria, Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to ask other EU countries to accommodate refugees as country heads for ‘critical point’

September 16, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Bulgaria will soon exceed the limit of 5000 refugees that it can accommodate and will ask that some refugees arriving

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to provide further 1000 places for refugees within days – Interior Minister

September 15, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees, Tsvetlin Yovchev

Within the next five to 10 days, Bulgaria will provide a further 1000 places for refugees, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to provide two buildings to accommodate 350 Syrian refugees

September 12, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

With capacity to shelter refugees in Bulgaria now exceeded by 25 per cent, with 3600 refugees in the country, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria continues preparing for Syrian refugee ‘wave’

September 10, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

There appears currently little chance that Bulgaria will get additional funding from the European Union to cope with the sharply

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Bulgaria 

Syrian refugees in Bulgaria: Hunger strikes, fundraising and tough times

September 8, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Syrian refugees in Bulgaria fleeing the violent conflagration in their own country are not having it easy as hosting facilities

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Number of Syrian refugees tops two million, more than half of them children

September 3, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

The European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva, has reiterated her calls for an end to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament to debate Syria crisis

September 2, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Syrian refugees

Bulgaria’s Parliament will hold a debate on the crisis on Syria, it emerged a day after head of state President

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria bracing for refugee inflow as result of Syria crisis

August 30, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

The consultative Security Council of the Bulgarian Government met on August 30 to discuss the potential risks to the country

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